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  1. PseudoSABR
    I think our offense is a bit better than he's projecting (659). We scored 701 runs last year.
  2. PseudoSABR
    Marcum 1 year/$4M (2013) signed by NY Mets as a free agent 1/13 performance bonuses: $0.250M each for 120, 140, 160, 170 innings. $0.375M each for 180, 190 IP. $0.5M for 200 IP roster bonuses: $0.375M each for 90, 120 days on active roster without injury to right arm. $0.5M each for 150, 170 days
  3. PseudoSABR
    Well you certainly construed every contract to fit your premise, including Correia's second year cost while trumpeting the base salaries of health risk pitchers. If Marcum and Lanan don't hit most of their incentives, the haven't been effective--you simply can't have it both ways. Moderator edit -- this is a great thread and I do not want to interrupt, but please refrain from characterizing other people's posts as "patronizing and juvenile". Also, I don't believe that he intended his formatting to be inflammatory -- it seems to me that he was trying to make his position clearer -- and you are both making good points and it will be disappointing if the focus gets distracted by personal attacks. Obviously. My point isn't to suggest the Twins should have signed the players that they did (Pelfry/Correia, etc.), nor that they should have signed Sanchez or Grienke, but rather my point is that the pitchers you suggest are only a better bet in an idealistic outcome. My sense is that the Twins are cheap and health-risk adverse, not stupid.
  4. PseudoSABR
    Do you blame Ryan for the budget or ownership?
  5. PseudoSABR
    With enough innings (which you seem to assume), Lannan costs $5mil, Saunders, 7.5, Marcum, 8; for a total of 20.5 million. The Twins spent about 10.5 million for the three pitchers they acquired. We were both working with fantasy budgets.
  6. PseudoSABR
    And I'll trump you with Grienke, Sanchez, and Lohse!
  7. PseudoSABR
    None of the pitchers you prefer are likely to be ready/healthy enough to start the season. So there's that.
  8. PseudoSABR
    I bet there will be openings next offseason. Dave got replaced immediately. It's a fun, complicated league. I'll keep you in mind.
  9. PseudoSABR
    Having someone play the shortstop position competently would be nice to see. Let the ****ing pitcher bat for him.
  10. PseudoSABR
    I don't blame kab either, but while I'm sure I have your email somewhere, will you PM me it just so i have another record or it. I've always really enjoyed our subset of the league; it's just too bad things shake out how they do.
  11. PseudoSABR
    Really? Look, I consider you my buddy, Dave. But you kinda blew your departure . I'm just not sure it was justified. Yes, there was some weird **** going down, but I really don't understand why that lead you to leave the league... If you have some advice/insight for the rest of us who are willing to stick it out in this league, I'd like to hear it.
  12. PseudoSABR
    MRI came out favorably, evidently...saw on MLB network bottom line.
  13. PseudoSABR
    But we all know that OPS doesn't account for hustle and moxie...
  14. PseudoSABR
    Odd turn of events today.
  15. PseudoSABR
    Oh, boy.
  16. PseudoSABR
    He's joking.
  17. PseudoSABR
    Again, you seem to have this notion that you can build teams to consistently win in the playoffs. There's the big-buck teams, and then there's teams like Oakland, Tampa Bay, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and San Fran that seem to compete over the last decade or so, and really only St. Louis and San Fran have demonstrably better playoff success than the Twins. That's two teams you're reserving for your "A" score. There's nothing mediocre about five or six divisional titles in a period of ten or twelve years. There's like only five teams that have had that success without absurd payrolls.
  18. PseudoSABR
    In essence, people believe they were sold on a bill of goods when agreeing to fund a public stadium--that the Twins are reneging on the complicit promise that 51% of revenue would be allocated to payroll, rather than some portion of that going back to paying for stadium costs. I don't know to what extent that point is true, but i think it's a legitimate concern given how payroll has decreased significantly this year. I think it's pretty easy to see why people would be put off by a payroll that has decreased by 20 % from last year. On it's surface, that doesn't look like investment into what has been a last place team, that looks like a cost cutting. I don't mean to speak for Chief, but you are being unfairly obtuse on this point, imo.
  19. PseudoSABR
    Happy Trolls are just as bad as Hateful Trolls. That some people don't find blind optimism offensive, doesn't mean that pollyanneishness doesn't negatively affect many people's participation in discussion. It offends my intellect when someone brandishes their baseless happy-takes as legitimate. Just as it offends my intellect when someone tries to frame their ideological pessimism as critical analysis. That one narrative unreasonably casts Hicks as the hero and the other defiantly scripts Correia as the villain hardly matters in terms of each's repugnance.
  20. PseudoSABR
    He had one yesterday, too, but it was in 'exhibition' so it doesn't count towards his spring training total (derp).
  21. PseudoSABR
    Gibson getting roughed up. He's having trouble with his command, several wild pitches.
  22. PseudoSABR
    Hicks goes yard off Cliff Lee.
  23. PseudoSABR
    Looks like the Phillies game is on mlb.tv
  24. PseudoSABR
    "Some might say..." ? Who says that and why? I'd like to know the context of Berrios' supposed swagger.
  25. PseudoSABR
    Nah. It was just one reviewers single simulation. I imagine it was an aberration from typical simulations. Just thought it was funny, because it certainly isn't informative.
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